Long Price of admission Poems

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                              THE PRICE OF ADMISSION


So many...

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Do you have your one way ticket to heaven?
(Have you made your reservation?)
Do you have your one way ticket to heaven?
(Already stamped for approval?)

Do you have your reservation made?
(Do you know the cost for your...

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Invitations to the Gala
issued by a grave impala
were highly sought out missives 
by the bold and the submissive 
Those omitted uttered curses
shook angry fists or heavy purses
Had they but known that
the price of  admission
was...

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Once upon a time
I was merely prescient
in genes and blood
and air and water
and other ingestions
and digestions
of our ancestors.

Among these were Elders
who may have stopped along the banks
of the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers
to drink from their...

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I loved you John Wayne!
		I wished you were my father
		or maybe an older brother 
		who’d tutor me to be tough
		when manners weren’t enough
		and toughness was needed
		that civility be heeded
		and not to brag or complain.
		O I...

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Piano ballad. Hold on to your hope and your breakthrough. 

Breakthrough
(We're all trying)
By Michelle Morris
31/10/2022

There you are
All alone in the park
Sitting on that cold bench
Life passes you by

But all you see
Is the movie in your...

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Smiling recollections,
summer evening reflections, now
almost gone for new generations
while my venues of childhood musings
and adolescent anticipations
...near extinction.
I must concede my willingness to share
what they will never recall
     - the exhilaration 
when...

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The Giraffe Cries 
 
Dancing on a thread of silk - taut of pain,
balanced deep within the fear…
Swaying to the side in calculated energy,
breathing as the sweat begins to pour

Toeing the line with blinders on
only...

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Below the gray blah canopy
Suffering from bad attitude
and seasonal psychosis
The human race sprints
No finish line required
and Everyone wins gold
Music blaring
Bikini tops daring
Exposed guts not caring
Rooftop gogo dancer staring
At me
Ok, maybe that's vice versa
Its a poolside,...

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At forty, I hired a vocal coach.

My husband had taken up
a new friend—he swore it was platonic,
her name unimportant.

Upfront, she warned me
her rate for adults
was higher than for children—
a grown-up's capacity for change
isn't great, throat...

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The heart wants what it wants
The body craves what it desires
The soul searches for truth and meaning
And our brains are generally on fire

Singers describe their anguish in song
and doctors prescribe a pill
Theologians define the right...

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after the show
i am where i wanna be
i am an 'only you' person anyway, so i am fully and completely content
just to see you smile is worth the full price of admission
i never thought that...

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welcome to my universe

welcome to my universe
my world 
my inner cosmos 
the world according to cosmos

it is a dark and fantastical land
filled with dark dangerous delusions
mad monsters
dark imaginings

things that go bump in the night
wild things...

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A plastic bag, a windy day, 
she's darting, dancing high and low, 
coquettish in her flight of fancy, 
all in all, a one-bag show; 
a street performer with a twist, 
I wish you could have...

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Cerebrate Contemplations  
David J Walker

Knowing the nature of forever
Is understanding that never is not a
Natural option
The never of ever letting go 
of a single day 
is the beginning of 
Natures empathic nature 
Of nature’s...

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there there personality
now and why
soldiers find when its you
who needs to stop
when you support me
on anothers list
and you figured 
buttons at home
on a couch
missing me
can't relay the rate
price perfect admission to fate
how checkmate louds
in feathered...

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Where is the silence of the night
When you are out of sight
i dwell in dark corners of my soul
stretching out to the light
just above.

When the noise grows, too loud,
When the enemy grows too proud,
i dwell...

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I'm dreaming of a well lit Christmas 
just like the ones that used to glow 
for a price of admission, a well-lit apparition
a rainbow-colored gel for Christmas show

I'm dreaming of a lighted Christmas 
photons careening...

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